MENTOR: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONCEPT FOR INTERSUBJECTIVITY BETWEEN THE DISCIPLINE OF BUSINESS AND THE DISCIPLINE OF NURSING.
Contributors: University of Texas at Austin.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Business Administration, General.; Psychology, Social.
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of intersubjectivity, or shared agreement of meaning, of the concept of mentor between the discipline of business and the discipline of nursing. A qualitative, inductive and deductive approach was the design of this investigation. The approach was used to inductively derive the attributes of the identity of mentor from the disciplinary perspective of business and then from the disciplinary perspective of nursing. The attributes were derived through the inductive procedures of content analysis and concept analysis. The derived attributes for each discipline were then compared for intersubjectivity or shared agreement of meaning. Deductively, role theory was used to frame, or provide a context for, the resulting conceptualizations of mentor identity.

There were two populations of interest for this study. The population which represented the discipline of business and the population which represented the discipline of nursing consisted of periodical literature citations, and their corresponding manuscripts, obtained through databases for the time period beginning January, 1979, and ending October, 1987. From each population, 20 manuscripts were randomly selected for analysis and constituted the samples.

This investigation revealed that the attributes of mentor identify for both disciplines were disposition, tenure, stature, and behavior. While the attributes were the same for both disciplines, differences between business and nursing were found in the themes which converged to form the attributes. These differences indicate that the concept of mentor identity has been adapted to the nursing discipline and can, therefore, be considered a shared concept. From the results of this investigation, a middle-range role theory of mentors in nursing has been developed.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: B, page: 2124.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 1988.

School code: 0227.